Re: [PATCH percpu#for-next] percpu: clear memory allocated with thekm allocator

[Ingo Molnar]

* Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:55:18 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:52 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Percpu allocator should clear memory before returning it but the km
> > > allocator forgot to do it.  Fix it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Spotted-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > (fwiw, -tip uses Reported-by)
> 
> fyi, Documentation/SubmittingPatches does also.

Yeah, and, FYI, there's observed strong correlation between the 
maintenance policies of -tip and Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
[i'd even venture so far to claim causation]

Thanks,

	Ingo
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